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by bmelton 10y ago
Worth noting that while I might otherwise agree with your position, the thing you're missing here is that this isn't a case as you're used to seeing them, and neither guilt nor innocence is being determined here. Preliminary
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by bmelton 10y ago
The difference here is with Uber, you see the route and the fare before you accept it. So, if we're trying to pull your example away from hypothetical and more towards practical, it's like getting fucked out of ATM fees every t
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by bmelton 10y ago
I believe the howling. Dogs definitely howl, and will happily do so to voice disapproval, sadness, etc., etc. If there are tears alongside that howling, then your dog may be an anomaly.
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by bmelton 10y ago
I don't know about the author, but every vet that I've talked to has seemed pretty certain of it. We have an older dog who has begun to get weepy. We first assumed that it was related to resultant pain from her arthritis, but he
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by bmelton 10y ago
Uber may indeed have poor management, but I believe you paint with far too broad a brush in this scenario. MOST companies fail. 75% of venture backed companies fail quickly. Only about 50% of all businesses are capable of lasting 5 years,
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by bmelton 10y ago
For me, it's less a question of ideology and more of a question of where the money comes from. If the money is there, and will be there again in the future, then it doesn't really matter where it comes from, and I'm not sugg
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by bmelton 10y ago
Places don't have to compete other places to be worth living in. Places where water extraction and delivery is relatively cheap, for example, need not produce very much in the way of value to be justified. Moreover, economic value can
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by bmelton 10y ago
Clean water is only valuable if someone can get for it greater than what it costs to extract. The aspect you're missing isn't a definition of value, but a model of sustainability. If there's industry enough in an area that t
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by bmelton 10y ago
I think you're missing a lot here. The city isn't failing for lack of jobs, but for lack of jobs that produce value. A job rebuilding the infrastructure of an area is only valuable if there are other jobs from which you can tax
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by bmelton 10y ago
What does capitalism have to do with it? It's almost universally agreed that government choices were the ones at fault, and whether capitalist, socialist, whatever, cost vs. quality is still a factor.
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by bmelton 10y ago
This seems like pure difficulty for me. When I think of thumbs up / down metrics I think in terms of "would I endorse this?" A movie like "Suicide Squad" was (to me at least) highly enjoyable, though I thought it o
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by bmelton 10y ago
Sure, and then I could (probably a better analogy here really) just put it on a table and say "Take One", bypassing the definition of 'serving', depending on how it's been defined. Whether we like it or not, law is
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by bmelton 10y ago
There are a couple of things that are interesting to me about this. 1) If you don't have any vision-impaired people in your course, would you continue to 'downgrade' the curriculum to a vision-impaired level? 2) The funding t
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by bmelton 10y ago
That very much depends on how charitably one interprets the law. If banning an AR-15 doesn't infringe my right to gun ownership, then in the same way, a ban on gay marriage doesn't infringe my right to marriage. I can still marry
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by bmelton 10y ago
The consequences of such opinions almost always directly infringe on a person's civil rights in today's America. Increasing access to health care by raising taxes infringes upon economic freedom. Implementing gun control infringe
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by bmelton 10y ago
> which, of course, is unconstitutional Which means that you'd need only to amend the California constitution to repeal or modify that amendment. I'm with you in that I definitely do not favor violating a constitution of any so
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by bmelton 10y ago
To OP's point, at what point do we consider the Chesterton's fence effect? Pointing out code quality problems is of course easy when the effects of those quality problems are obvious, but as OP mentioned, Facebook is working at a
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by bmelton 10y ago
'But the flaw is this: "All you need to provide is a driveway or parking space where the mechanic can work"' But you can do quite a lot of things with just some space and some tools. Oil changes, filter changes, brake
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by bmelton 10y ago
George W. Bush
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by bmelton 10y ago
It was more of a meta-comment for the whole thread to attempt to end the "nuh unh" "yeah huh" back and forth. As I said, I don't know who's right and who's wrong, but the argument seemed to involve a lot o
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by bmelton 10y ago
I want to preface this with an apology, because I don't think there's a way to say this without sounding cliquish. For that, I apologize in advance, but because your account appears to be relatively new, I feel like this is somew
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by bmelton 10y ago
"There is a vast amount of empirical data that shows patch adoption rates are far faster on iOS." Is that still true for the Google reference models? The Pixel, Nexus and other references devices tend to get updates in a much t
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by bmelton 10y ago
I think that it's a worthwhile exercise in politics to both a) not assume that the guy you like is always telling the truth, and b) not assume that the guy you don't like is always lying My favorite (recent) reference to how to ev
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by bmelton 10y ago
I agreed with, and upvoted your answer, but upon reflection, so long as insurance policies in America are still constrained by state borders, there might well be a (fairly arbitrary) hurdle on risk pools. States with more and a higher conc
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by bmelton 10y ago
No problem. I was fully prepared for the possibility that something had changed with the administration. I tend to follow politics pretty closely, but not all factually true statements maintain their truthiness over time.
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by bmelton 10y ago
I agree with your statements at large, but considering Uber was not aware of any active investigations, they're under no obligation to assist police in enacting a sting. I'm not suggesting that it is, as there are semantically man
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by bmelton 10y ago
How does that square with this article? https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/10/23/u-s-has-w... To sum up, there was a $450 renunciation fee as well as a $450 fee for relinquishment, but bot
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by bmelton 10y ago
Your argument seems to assume that health and safety regulations aren't lobbied for as anti-competitive, which they often are. A chicken farm might be reasonably safe if one in 500 chickens are checked for illness or disease. Of cours
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by bmelton 10y ago
Out of pure curiosity, would you be willing to explain why you'd protest 2A people using a service that you also use?
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by bmelton 10y ago
I grew up in the US, and never encountered a gun until I was approximately 30 and specifically sought them out. That doesn't mean that they don't exist in America or in the UK. They do.

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